What's the difference between lime and mime?

Lime


Definition:

  • (n.) A thong by which a dog is led; a leash.
  • (n.) The linden tree. See Linden.
  • (n.) A fruit allied to the lemon, but much smaller; also, the tree which bears it. There are two kinds; Citrus Medica, var. acida which is intensely sour, and the sweet lime (C. Medica, var. Limetta) which is only slightly sour.
  • (n.) Birdlime.
  • (n.) Oxide of calcium; the white or gray, caustic substance, usually called quicklime, obtained by calcining limestone or shells, the heat driving off carbon dioxide and leaving lime. It develops great heat when treated with water, forming slacked lime, and is an essential ingredient of cement, plastering, mortar, etc.
  • (v. t.) To smear with a viscous substance, as birdlime.
  • (v. t.) To entangle; to insnare.
  • (v. t.) To treat with lime, or oxide or hydrate of calcium; to manure with lime; as, to lime hides for removing the hair; to lime sails in order to whiten them.
  • (v. t.) To cement.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In labelled acidic waters, the 26Al was present predominantly in low molecular weight forms, whereas in labelled limed waters the major fraction of 26Al was present in a high molecular weight form.
  • (2) That diary was published in 2005 by Limes, a serious Italian magazine, which did not identify the cardinal.
  • (3) When treated after exposure to ribonuclease, the colonies fluoresced lime-green.
  • (4) Adult Persian lime trees grafted on Citrus macrophylla and C. volkameriana were used, planted on a groundwater-affected red ferrilytic soil in the La Habana Province.
  • (5) Powdered slaked lime applied to the chewed Areca nut with Piper betle inflorescence at the corner of the mouth causes the mean pH to rise to 10, at which reactive oxygen species are generated from betel quid ingredients in vitro.
  • (6) Alfalfa plants of a resistant, a susceptible and a highly susceptible strains were grown in unlimed soil at pH 5.8 and in limed one at pH 6.9 and inoculated by the pathogens of vascular wilt, Corynebacterium insidiosum and Verticillium albo-atrum.
  • (7) Most obvious differences can be found for Cd: While the concentrations of soluble Cd in anaerobically digested sludge only increase at pH values lower than pH 4, the solubility of Cd in precipitation sludge and limed sludges already show rapid increases at pH values lower than 7.
  • (8) While it is still hot, juice the lime into a cup and stir in the granulated sugar (which will not dissolve completely).
  • (9) A solution – injecting the graves with a lime solution to speed up decomposition – was eventually discovered by a graveyard worker, who charged the Norwegian authorities $670 per plot.
  • (10) The soda lime capacity is 25 litres (approximately 20 kg).
  • (11) 3 First squeeze lime juice over the fruit, then dip it into the flavoured salt.
  • (12) The frequency of micronucleated cells (MNC) derived from exfoliated human oral mucosal cells has been measured to assess genotoxic damage in chewers of betel quid with tobacco (BQT) and tobacco with lime (T).
  • (13) This fruit possesses a taste-modifying substance that causes sour foods--e.g., lemons, limes, or grapefruit--to taste sweet.
  • (14) The results obtained in R. tigrina have been discussed in relation to the increased calcium deposits in the paravertebral lime sacs and to the possible enhanced secretion of the parathyroid glands.
  • (15) "I do a mean ceviche with it – coconut milk, lime juice and chilli.
  • (16) Lime Street was closed off by police as the demonstrations continued.
  • (17) He also produced this effect in some of his sculptures, for example Untitled (Funerary Box for a Lime Green Python) (1954), where a pair of solemn-looking palm leaves gives the work a consciously ritualistic tone.
  • (18) Grab a table if you're arriving late enough for the restaurant section to have emptied, and make the barman get his big grinder out by ordering a mandarinha – Beija-Flor cachaça, mandarin syrup, lime juice and black pepper.
  • (19) Once it's a deep golden colour all over, transfer to a dish and season with a squeeze of lime or lemon juice, coarse sea salt, plenty of hazelnut butter (the butter will need a good stir, because the solids will settle to the bottom) and a grind of black pepper.
  • (20) The amount of Ni extracted by ammonium acetate was reduced by 36% in the limed metal soil compared with the unlimed metal soil.

Mime


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of drama in which real persons and events were generally represented in a ridiculous manner.
  • (n.) An actor in such representations.
  • (v. i.) To mimic.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Although she's been performing since 2000 – in the punk-cabaret duo the Dresden Dolls , in a controversial conjoined-twin mime act called Evelyn Evelyn (they wear a specially constructed two-person dress and have been castigated by disability groups for presenting conjoined twins as circus freaks, an accusation she denies) – in her new band, Amanda Palmer And The Grand Theft Orchestra , she's suddenly become a kind of phenomenon.
  • (2) Me and Taika would always do theatrical stuff, running around, miming, putting on voices.
  • (3) He taught us how to mime at home with games.” When he set up his own theatre company, the family moved to La Beauce, near Orléans.
  • (4) These results with this novel chemotherapy program in heavily pretreated patients suggest that MIME should be studied in less extensively treated patients and considered as a part of treatment programs for patients with Hodgkin's disease in first relapse.
  • (5) From 1981 to 1983, 208 patients with recurrent or refractory lymphoma were treated with methylglyoxal-bis-guanylhydrazone (methyl-GAG), ifosfamide, methotrexate, etoposide (MIME).
  • (6) Trump, signing an act to protect VA whistleblowers, revelled in the moment, using his fingers to mime a gun and mouthing his catchphrase “You’re fired!” at Shulkin.
  • (7) She has said all along she won't talk about him, and when I mention his name she mimes zipping her lips.
  • (8) He presented cabaret in working men's clubs ("I adored those audiences, they'd always want to dance with me afterwards") and toured Europe, developing a strange hybrid of drag, mime and conventional song-and-dance.
  • (9) Shoot!” He cocks his thumb to his index finger and mimes a pistol firing, though it’s not impossible I imagined that.
  • (10) Apart from spastic, extrapyramidal and cerebellar disturbances resulting from various types of diseases of middle and old age, the individual associated movements in miming and gesture become unharmonious and stiffer with increasing age and the hyperkinesia which was hidden by combined motoricity becomes more marked.
  • (11) He worked in mime, and he had a real theatrical background.
  • (12) However, MIME is well suited for remission induction in patients intended for subsequent autologous bone-marrow transplantation.
  • (13) She accused the singer on Twitter of miming on stage, adding "how disappointing": Kay Burley (@KayBurley) Oh, Dolly is miming.
  • (14) So every once in a while it would be, 'Yeah I read that book', and Alex would do like [James mimes a victory dance]."
  • (15) There are few feats of virtuosity better than his miming as he rehearses the song and as he performs a short introductory dance.
  • (16) But of all that what I found strangest was mime," Prada says.
  • (17) This is, after all, a musician, actress and multimedia performance artist who as a kid attended a nursery school where there were rumoured to be satanic cults, afterwards confessing that she was pissed off that there actually weren't; who appeared in a Calvin Klein "heroin chic" ad campaign that led to dope dealers on her block in New York naming a strain of junk after her; who has been a wrestler and appeared in numerous Super 8 horror and fetish movies; who was mugged to within an inch of her life but survived; who mimes onstage fornication with a skeleton symbolising her deceased boyfriend and other such transgressive acts including cracking paint-filled eggs on her vulva; who has cavorted in the recording studio with notorious coprophiliac GG Allin; who was into body mutilation and dysmorphia and so wanted to challenge preconceived notions of female sexuality that she SEWED UP HER VAGINA.
  • (18) I have to mime the lost purse, show the panic, pull out the drama, and then the relief.
  • (19) Without working too hard she studied for a PhD in political science, then devoted rather more effort to learning mime at the Piccolo Teatro.
  • (20) "If I'm miming something, be it a knife, a gun or a glass, I can't just let it disappear.

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